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Chris Calloway

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Python bigot.

Yes, I did C and C++ first.

And much assembler before that. I have a hard time understanding how so many people grok computing without knowing machine code. Too magic black box for me. I get it because I get the semiconductor physics, from which I get the gates and flip flops, from which I get the counters, shift registers, and muxes, from which I get the ALUs and CLUs, from which I get the processor, from which springeth computing. I must know how it works! Ask me about threaded interpreters.

I'm an applications analyst for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Marine Sciences Renaissance Computing Institute..

I facilitate TriPython meetings, organize Python sprints. Formerly, I developed and taught PyCamp for TriPython.

My ongoing, frequently updated badly-in-need-of-an-overhaul presentation What You Need to Know About Python presented at PyOhio 2014/2013, Plone Symposium Midwest 2014/2013, Plone Symposium East 2012/2011/2010/2009, and Plone Conference 2009/2008, UCLA, University of Toronto, University of Washington, and University of Houston: